Richeyville Community Playground

12/06/2025

Highlights from Richeyville’s 3rd Annual Light Up Night! Thanks to Jacob H. Ford Photography for capturing these!

12/06/2025

03/20/2025

Happy first day of spring! 🌼🌸🌱

03/19/2024

Here’s an image of the Richeyville Community Playground under construction circa 1933 - 1947 as a drain pipe is installed for water runoff.

Source: https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A9116.022.CL

03/18/2024

Help Richeyville, PA native Jacob Ford advance to the final round of the February 2024 photo competition with America’s Favorite Photos! The link to vote for his photo is below:

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05/22/2023

A brief history about the Madonna of the trail. Located along Rt. 40 between Richeyville and Beallsville.

This weekend, along the National Rd. (Rt. 40), is the National Road Festival! For those not familiar with this festival, it's a festival that began in 1976 as a celebration of the American Bicentennial. The initial celebration and festival started at a site in Brownsville, PA along the National Pike, now known today as the National Pike Steam, Gas, and Horse Association (I have many photos of this festival I'll be posting in the coming days). It was such a big hit, that it has continued ever since, and many people that live along or near the National Rd. have embraced the traffic of people that come to see this festival by doing yardsales and garage sales.

Now, to explain the meaning behind this shot, here's a bit more history about the National Road (Rt. 40). Scattered along the original layout of the National Road, are 12 of the same statues, each called "Madonna of the Trail", located in Bethesda, MD, Beallsville, PA, Wheeling, WV, Springfield, OH, Richmond, IN, Vandalia, IL, Lexington, MO, Council Grove, KS, Lamar, CO, Albuquergue, NM, Springerville, AZ, and Upland, CA. The shot that I took here is the one in Beallsville, PA. These statues were erected to honor the strength of the pioneer women that traveled with their children and families many years ago.

This shot here is a four image panorama I took at sunrise on Friday morning, although the best color of the morning didn't materialize much later that morning, so there wasn't near the color in the sky that I was hoping for, so I made this composition a black and white one. I have several more great shots from Friday morning that I'll also be sharing with you all in the coming days. Although this isn't exactly how I had planned to edit the composition I was going for yesterday morning, I'm very happy with how this black and white compostion turned out. Enjoy!

Photo taken: May 19, 2023

04/24/2023

04/15/2023

Here’s a beautiful shot of St. Katharine Drexel Parish - St. Agnes Church taken this evening at sunset by former Richeyville resident, Jacob Ford, of Monongahela, PA.

Tonight's shot of the beautiful sunset we had this evening is something a little different, from a location I haven't featured on my page, until now. Some of you may not even know where this is even after I share the location, but tonight's shot also is special to me for one reason; it was taken in the town where I grew up. This evening, I went to go visit my parents in my hometown, Richeyville, Pennsylvania. Richeyville is situated about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh in Washington County as the crow flies, and about an hour drive to Pittsburgh from here. The church seen here is St. Katharine Drexel Parish - St. Agnes Church. I have some other great shots from my hometown I'm excited to share with you all later this week, but this was probably the best shot I took tonight in my town. Tonight's sunset was one of the better ones I've captured in a little while, and I was happy to have been in the town where I grew up to witness this sunset. Enjoy!

Photo taken: April 14, 2023